There’s a thing I want to say. I heard it coming up when I was sitting in
Starbucks yesterday. Watching the sun and the people in the sun and thinking
this was
I attended a funeral last month. I wanted to speak, but I couldn’t — not for the
lump in my throat or the tears in my eyes or any of the affective, funereal
I want to share a quick few reflections on the particular way in which I see
comics as a powerful way to express and organize our thinking. Defining this
collection of practices we
The fact remains that to write is to trace, and to trace is within the reach of
any hand
— Fernand Deligny, The Arachnean and Other Texts
[https://books.google.com/books/about/The_
Prelude
In a former life I was a dancer. A former life, or a previous era: BGS (Before
Grad School). This is how I used to think of the countless hours I spent
For much of October I have been mentally wringing my hands over exactly how I
want to contribute to Digital Writing Month, especially as a featured
contributor. I gladly accepted the invitation to
How can I hear my own voice unless it bounces off of yours?
I have had that single line in my mind for years. It isn’t particularly poetic,
and I don’t
Good writing is not reducible to numbers; the word count for the expression of
an idea can’t always (or even usually) be determined in advance. Ideas fit all
kinds of containers, some
I was going to start by saying that digital writing was, for me, a Pandora’s
Box.
But that would not be fair, or true. The jar Pandora opened held the evils of
It began with a blank Google Doc. No ideas, no suggestions, and no direction.
Just a notion that somehow three small high school classes could use a digital
space to create something together
This piece was contributed as part of Hybrid Pedagogy‘s Digital Writing Month
[http://www.digiwrimo.com].
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Over the course of the last 6 months or so, I’ve felt a real
Autocorrect is tyranny. It is interruption of thought, of speech, of creation, a
condition for — and sometimes a prohibition against — my voice being heard. When
I type “phone-less” and autocorrect changes it to
